The last month I’ve been traveling in North-America for competitions and training.
First I went to Colorado for training and the first worldcup Slopestyle of the season!
I dislocated my shoulder in the first qualification run but with a lot of tape I was still able to do a basic second run.
Unfortunatly this got me a 6th place which was 1 spot(1,3 point) away from finals!

Last week I competed the World Championships in Stoneham, Canada!
Qualifiers went really good so made it to the finals! Unfortunately finals didn’t go so well but still ended up with a 13th place!

The next 3 weeks will be all about getting my shoulder back in business before the Sochi WorldCup!

A while ago I competed the WorldCup BigAir in Antwerp and I took 2 really talented guys from the Amsterdam Film Academy with me to make a little video.
The WC was one of the most fun I’ve ever did and I’m really stoked about the video Jeroen Klokgieters and Becanti Wijnbergh made about it!

The past week I’ve been riding at the indoorslope in Landgraaf for the Europa Cup and followed by a few days of training and meetings. Almost 70 riders from all over Europe came to this event to get some FIS points which made it harder to get on the podium than I expected.

Unfortunately the easiest way of judging is scoring the rider who spins the most the highest which makes it more about spinning as much as possible instead of doing a stylish trick.
At the end people were doing 900’s on tiny jumps which looks impressive but actually isn’t stylish at all..

Even tho I’m emberassed for spinning 900’s on these tiny jumps as well I’m happy with my second place and stoked for my buddy Jesper Kicken for getting first at his home mountain!

The federation’s new technical director, coming from the Iceskating world, wants to make snowboarding a lot more professional.
This week we had a EC in Landgraaf combined with a trainingcamp with the national team to start the road to Sochi.
Heavy training in the gym, a private park and a lot of discussing how we can make Sochi happen.

The Dutch national news made a clip at the EuropeCup about how the federation wants to get their riders to Sochi.

One of the best WorldCup BigAirs comps I’ve ever done!
Perfect jump, great audience and almost a hometown competition.

Yesterday I made it to the finals of the WC in Antwerp with a score above 90.00!
During training for the finals I stomped my first front double, and flatspin 1080 since January, but unfortunately didn’t get it in the finals.
At the end I ended up with a 9th place!

The last few weeks I’ve been working to get BigAirBag to the Skipass which worked out great.
One of the guys from BigAirBag made a little video about the event and added some shots of the Stomp it competition!

Yesterday morning I left Modena with the guys from BigAirBag with their huge bus filled with 2 1000kg Airbags.. So you can imagine it took quit a while to get back to Holland.
Even though we had a 18h drive back home, the good feeling about the last week hasn’t left!

BigAirBag has asked me to organize a stand at the Skipass fair so i could finally finish my internship which is mandatory for my graduation. It took a lot of time to fix everything but it turned out great!

During the Skipass I competed the “Nissan Stomp It” bigair competition together with some other big riders.
Because the comp wasn’t a FIS or TTR but still had some strong riders there was a lot less pressure on us which made it really fun.
Everything until finals went really well so at the end I finished 4th!

Just finished a exhausting day at the Skipass fair in Italy.
My sponsor BigAirBag has a huge airbag placed here and I decided to help them out a bit.
Cant wait to ride the jump during the training for the Nissan Stomp it tomorrow!